Bread Making and Septimus Heap

I know it sounds crazy, but I think that I am actually getting the hang of this bread making thing! I tried a new recipe from The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook from the Java River Cafe in Montevideo, MN. All the restaurants featured in this cookbook are using local food. The bread recipe for Country Whole Wheat bread is the best whole wheat recipe that I have tried yet! I made two loaves this morning and am making 2 more this afternoon so I can have enough for us for the week, although at the rate I am eating it, four loaves won't be enough! The kids are getting used to me putting their sandwiches on homemade bread, although they still prefer the soft, perfect-sized slices of store bought bread. I am hoping that that will change as they get less and less of the store bought stuff. My goal for this afternoon, while the kids are sledding, is to make more bread, make chicken stock and try out a homemade pizza recipe from the Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook. Wow, what a change of pace from the way I used to spend my free time, i.e. tv and gossip mags, I have many weaknesses. I also ordered seeds from a seed catalogue today, never done that before! I used the Seeds of Change website to order. I found their prices high and that they were out of many of the seeds I had hoped to get. For a newbie, is this normal? Am I ordering too late, too early? I would like to find a seed company in MN if possible, but I haven't stumbled upon any yet.

Before cooking I am off to finish Queste, by Angie Sage. I have reread the whole series so as to prepare myself for her latest, Syren. I enjoy the Septimus Heap series, and I love Sage's writing. I do get stuck on some gaps in the story and have to wonder if I am taking it all too seriously. But besides those few details that I find lacking, reading the story all at once has been fun, and with each sequel I enjoy the world she has created more. I would definitely recommend these books to my students, but I would not teach them. I find them more pleasure reading than deep, thought-provoking works.